Train Station

Coming up, by the way, on this coming Sunday, speaking of events, is our fire fair, a fire department fire fair on October 4 from eleven to three. And I hope everyone will will have an opportunity to participate in that, particularly the kids that it…

Well, I that's mean, there's no The first interest we had was in that in that region. Yeah. I mean, there's very few parcels within the LI, so I mean It's LI? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it I don't think it causes any. Can you just point out the parcel…

It's just a logical location because of the proximity to the train station. So it would be, attractive to a a potential license holder because of the foot traffic and the yeah. So

And, manager, would you like to go over the public ones very quickly? Yeah. So, the first one is the upgrades to the parking lot at the train station. As I talked about last week, as everybody knows, our parking lot is susceptible to tidal flooding. …

And, you know, I'll leave it up to Valerie whether or not she thinks it's worth putting it or not. But electric vehicle charging. Know we have a lot of charging capacity slated to be added to the train station, but that is for, basically, for commute…

these are very popular because Yeah. Now these ones yeah. They get used a lot. I you know, as an aside, yeah, adding some here would be fantastic, but adding some everywhere else. We have 18 that are coming to the train station. I was just we just ha…

You can go to the next slide. Alright. So we're gonna talk a little bit about I spent a couple of minutes talking about so what Croton On Hudson would like to put forth as the the New York forward boundary area. Let me just explain again this New Yor…

I wanna thank the mayor of the Sleepy Hollow for coming out to speak, with us tonight. I I I do have I do have a John, could you just introduce yourself again? Thank you. I do have a question. Do you do you control the tax assessment process in in th…

Yeah. What I was gonna say is, I think for Sleepy Hollow, have a smaller geography than than you do, but we really leaned into the connectivity between our neighborhoods. And as we were building this, you know, very affluent enclave on the the river,…

Good evening. Ed Riley from Truesdale Drive. When I heard the gentleman speak last week, I was very sympathetic. It may may still be. I'm not sure. Croton's had serious problems with pigeons in the past. I grew up on Van Wyck Street down here. Spent …

you. I think these are all really, really good questions because it sounds like a great thing to move forward on, but these are contingencies that, again, I appreciate Ana and Omar, your expertise in both of these areas to just highlight, the things …

There it it may not be a high number at all. Yeah. But I would say also looking at the train station solar array as a as a as a comparable example, that came to the board in various permutations a number of times. And so the expectation is that at ke…

Or, Lindsay, would our own be be comparable of in terms of just take taking a look at it at the train station? Yeah. It should be. I've got aerial views of all the others that are existing, and, they all look pretty much the same. Though, the other o…

I think it's just important to point out that the battery system that's at the train station as well as the future systems that may or may not be researched further, are lithium iron phosphate. They are not the lithium ion that have caught fire in pr…

So Yeah. We I reached out to a couple school districts that have them installed. I spoke to the village about the train station, which is why we went back to Terry and said, under no circumstances will we consider anything without gutters, without sn…

Facilities too. Right? Like Right. You know, if your if your property is next to the train station. Right? Right. You know? Yeah.

Describing a general area, but I think you can knit together. And if you wanna call it an overlay in a zone, again, in the general Riverside area where you would have know, again, light industrial, for instance, has an existing bar in it. Right? And …

The solar canopies at the train station are going through their final performance testing before being, excuse me, before being officially determined to be commercially operational. The project owner expects that to occur later this month or in early…

I'm sure trustee Simon will talk more about that, but one of the things that I brought up, was helping to recruit for the fire department. You know, our department is a 100% volunteer and in need of new members. And so I just wanna thank, trustee for…

I think that should be good. Close out of that. Thank you, my bad. Alright. Standby. That's alright. There we go. There we go. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. So yeah. So we'll have that have that or something very similar to that at the at the train station…

So on June 23, mayor and I were honored to be at the library as one of our wonderful residents, Ali Fraes, Alana Frays, got the an award from senator Harkom for pride month for all of the work that she does in our community and including heading up f…

There is a best in nearby Ossining at the Saint Augustine church, another one in Yorktown at a the the back lot of a automotive repair shop in Yorktown, and there are numerous others that have been developed or are being developed. In essence, what I…

They can supply power without having to be connected to the grid to to receive it. They can supply power to the grid and help start up other generating stations. Most power plants require some power to keep running. And if there is black start, that …

You've got a big chunk of land at Pump House Road that may or may not make sense, but the idea is it's available. Nothing else is being built on it. Each of these sites to be of any use must be near a power line with what we call hosting capacity. Th…

Onto the leaf blowers, in terms of our current current law, engineering has been addressing complaints as they've been coming in. Since June 1, eight violations have been issued. So, you know, feel free to if you if you wanna report a violation durin…

We have to do a call vote. Sorry. I have to do a roll call vote. Yep. Okay. Yes. It's It's fine. Trustee Slippen? Aye. Trustee Nachtaler? Aye. Trustee Nicholson? Aye. Trustee Simon? Aye. Mayor Pugh? Aye. Resolution authorizing the issuance of $256,16…

So congratulations to Cloth and Curate. Everyone go visit Cloth and Curate. And our sustainability committee met on May 31, and as always, a bunch of issues are EV charging, our train station solar array, DPW solar, balcony solar, which is very inter…

And there is a whole public outreach process, that ends up being undertaken and projects, what they call an open call for projects, where both private property owners as well as the the village themselves can put forth projects, and then the committe…

No. You say within within with our within our train station category, we could be focusing on resilience, but we could also focusing on future recreation

So I'm hoping that the word is is getting around more this year. We also have purchased a banner to hang at the train station on our on our sign at the corner of Crown Point Avenue and Veterans Plaza, that will remind people about the seasonal ban. Y…

I'm not going very far. Yeah. I I'll just I'll just point out here because there's a there's a lot on the consent agenda, but, you know, it's all it's all good stuff. You know, we are applying for two more grants. We're applying to Westchester County…

I I believe that they have, but I haven't seen the I haven't seen the documentation. But Yeah. If it's there, then the plan it will be in the planning board agenda. Correct. Yes. Yes. Okay. On the train station solar, Con Edison continues to review t…

So just I'll give a brief little history of the project, which may may answer trustee Nachtaler's question. So the village received, a earmark, a federal earmark from then congressman John Hall back in, like, 2009, and that money was for, raising the…

That's terrific. Well, thank you, trustee Nicholson. Just a few things here on, April 24. I got a chance to cross the river and, head over to Rockland County and, meet with some of the Rockland County folks who are very interested in, what Croton her…

Thank you. I just wanna give, a shout out to the a couple committees. The recreation advisory committee met, last week, and they are working on doing a kind of a scouting report of all of our parks and calling out to our, parks department any things …

Okay. Thank you, mayor. And bring that up. Do that, please. I'll ask Mark and Vinny to join us at the table since they have I think most of the fee changes are related to their items. Sorry. I'm just having a technical difficulty here. Did you get it…

to we didn't wanna go to $2 an hour because that felt too high. Yeah. And we didn't wanna go we didn't wanna make it where people had to carry change to pay. And so that I think that was that was a lot of the reluctance to raising this fee over the y…

Yes. Correct. You could but like I said, the 240,000 is the ideal level. Yep. You know, if you decided that you wanted to reduce that number some, you know Mhmm. By 25,000, I'll just throw that out there. Right? I mean, that would still put us at we'…

then speaking of the train station revenues, our next chart you want you yeah. That's okay. There we go. So, you can see here, train station revenues, right, for both for both permits and daily have been increasing. So '23, 24, and '25 are the final …

the next not go one more. Yeah. So then nope. Go back. Sorry. Okay. Alright. And then so the, the slide after this one goes into the breakdown of what, how we're how we're proposing to fund this, but, we also have a $1,000,000 capital, project for th…

You know, one thing as we, you know, as we're working on the, and we we'll talk about this, I guess, in greater detail when we to the capital project. But I was very pleased to see that we've got the shoreline study in there on the capital project Ye…

And they created their own square and contributed it to the quilt, which captures the clean electricity that they use at their parish hall. And they're also a green sanctuary congregation, which means they do a lot of education and outreach and progr…

How much time and expense will that be to the village? I submit a lot. The reason for the move is cost saving. Let's talk about cost saving. The budget of the court is $275,000. The court issues fines in the amount of $520,000 in 1925. Of that, Cortl…

And as the heart committee in the future honors additional Crotonites, their names will go up on that plaque. And so the heart committee had a wonderful cake for the seniors, and it was it was a great great early afternoon. On that same day, the mayo…

Right. So I think with the LWRP, I think it probably would be good for us to take a look at those types, those projects and see if there's ones that specifically float to the top. I know, you know, in your LWRP, I mean, you do have the train station …

from both Little League on on their season opening and want to congratulate them and thank them for all the work they do. And similarly with our rotary organization asking for a train station date for September 27 for the car show, I want to thank th…

Hi. Sonia Fronty, North Riverside Avenue. I'm speaking, as a resident today. I rent on North Riverside. And because I rent, there are no parking spaces, so I have to park on the street. That's no big deal. You know, you alternate park twice a week. T…

We're we're gonna be looking at ways that that the project goes on after 2027, which we'll we'll have more details on as we as we go forward. And there is a a village press release that went out just this afternoon that that summarizes what our first…

We tried to we tried to match it up with the alternates as best we could to not, know, to limit the disruption to people because we're cognizant of the fact that there is limited parking and trying to make people have to shift more than they already …

Well and and then, you know, we we have been able to innovate on the revenue side. Perfect example being we're getting over 400,000 annually from hosting the solar facility at our train station parking lot, and that's for thirty years. So that that h…